Ravages Quotes

• Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Childhood
  • Histories
  • Homesickness

• At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • She
  • Death
  • Water

• In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.

  

  Akihito
  • War
  • History
  • Wish

• A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Air
  • Rain
  • Stillness

• A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • America
  • Society
  • Justice

• Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Ravages
  • Human Labor

• Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Power
  • War
  • Society